This book is about the reshaping of women's lives, loves and dreams. It tells the story of how expectations and emotional landscapes have shifted sin

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A fully updated new edition of Ronald Hutton's classic work on the history of modern pagan witchcraft.

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Nicholas Cook explores the nature of music, how we think about it, its social and cultural dimensions, and its history. He discusses the many musical

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